Word: processes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...maintenance of peace in all parts of the world, is gratified that the League of Nations, with a view to a peaceful settlement, has given its attention to the controversy which has unhappily arisen between your Government and the Italian Government and that the controversy is now in process of arbitration...
Next day Mr. Jones came suddenly to life. He would, he said, be glad to receive a process server any time, because now he intended to challenge in a New York Federal Court SEC's right to subpoena him or to regulate the issuance and sale of his securities. Cried the blond oil royalist...
...Union Bag was severely deflated by the introduction of the kraft process, which is supposed to have been discovered by a Swedish workman who unwittingly treated pulp with an alkali instead of the usual acid. The result was called kraft-Swedish for "strength." Upshot was that Union Bag's sulphite pulp plants had to be scrapped. For five successive years, right through the gayest days of the Coolidge Boom, the company reported deficits. Then, having adjusted itself to the kraft order, Union Bag climbed out of the red in 1931, only to slip back the next dark year...
With Japan in process of swallowing North China, President Lin and Premier Wang beamed politely upon their Guest of Honor as he declared, "I pledge myself to promote closer and friendlier relations between Japan and China. My Government attaches great importance to this, my mission." President Lin, a teetotaler and nonsmoker, next uttered compliments of exquisite cordiality, causing the Japanese Ambassador to exclaim: "This crystallizes the mutual respect and goodwill existing between our two countries!" Finally the Chinese hosts uncorked unlimited champagne and a peculiarly good time...
...certainly Paramount Publix seemed a citadel of cinematic conservatism. Indeed, Paramount was the $300,000,000 medium through which the House of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. had seen fit to lift the film industry to the financial equal of steel and railroads. But Paramount had an Achilles heel. In the process of acquiring the world's longest theatre chain (1,600), the company had wisely paid in common stock instead of in cash from the proceeds of bond issues as did other film concerns in the wild scramble for their own screens. Unwisely, however, Paramount agreed to buy back that...